Cadence collects the information needed to do its job: from Instagram, your account id, the captions on your past posts, and how the posts Cadence published for you performed — it never asks Meta for your username, your profile, or your follower count; the photos, videos and audio you put in your Selects folder along with their file names, tags and any notes you add; the email address you give it for notifications; and basic usage data like which posts you approve, decline, or edit.

We don't collect anything beyond what's needed to generate and manage your posts. We don't track your behavior across other sites or apps.

The data Cadence collects is used to generate weekly post drafts and captions tailored to your voice and content, and to get better at doing that over time. When you decline a post or edit a caption, Cadence learns from that and adjusts future suggestions accordingly.

Usage data — things like approval rates, edit patterns, and posting history — is used internally to improve how Cadence plans and writes. None of it is used for advertising.

Cadence connects to Instagram through Meta's official API. We request only the permissions needed to read your profile and post history, and to help you publish content. We do not store your Instagram password. You can disconnect at any time from the Settings page. Cadence stops publishing and stops reading anything from your account immediately, and disconnects itself from Instagram — it's no longer a connected app there.

Cadence also asks for access to your Google Drive, so it can read the files you put in your Selects folder. Disconnecting Drive from the Settings page, or deleting your account, disconnects Cadence from Google too. Your files stay where they are.

Cadence runs on other companies' services, and doing its job means sending your work to some of them. Here is the whole list, and why each one gets what it gets.

Your photos and videos live in your own Google Drive, and Cadence reads them from there. Your originals are never moved, changed, or deleted.

When Cadence analyzes a video, it uploads a full copy to Cloudflare, which is where video is stored and played back from inside the app. It stays there until you remove that file from your library or delete your account. Thumbnails, poster frames and clip previews go to Cloudflare and to a Supabase storage bucket. All of these sit on public web addresses — the links are long and hard to guess, but they are not password-protected, so anyone who has one can open it.

Photos go to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, to be tagged and to work out where to crop them. Your captions are written by Anthropic too, and the prompt that writes them carries your real past Instagram captions, the answers you gave during setup, your description of your own sound, and any notes you have written on a Moment. That is what makes a caption sound like you instead of like a machine.

Audio goes to Google's Gemini to find the sections of a song. Video is analyzed by Gemini as well — Google fetches it from the Cloudflare address above, not from your Drive.

OpenAI — I send the audio from your videos to OpenAI, which turns singing and speech into text with timings. That's how I know where a line starts, so a clip doesn't begin in the middle of a word.

When a post goes out, Cadence puts the finished photo or video on a public web address for a few minutes so Instagram can fetch it, then deletes it.

Behind all of that: Supabase holds your account, your library records, your captions and your settings. Vercel runs the app. Sentry receives an error report when something breaks. Resend sends your email, so it sees the address you gave for notifications — which Cadence stores in order to write to you.

We don't sell your data, and we don't share it with advertisers or data brokers. Cadence uses Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for some of what it does, and it pays for accounts with all three — on paid accounts, none of them use your content to train their models. All three do keep it on their servers for a while afterwards; that is their normal practice, and Cadence has no agreement in place that shortens it.

Everything you add to Cadence — photos, videos, captions, notes — belongs to you. We don't claim any rights to it. You can delete your content and account data at any time from the Delete Account section in Settings, or by contacting us.

Questions about privacy or requests to delete your data can be sent to support@cadenceartist.com.